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...Rudd left the stage in triumph Saturday night, some in the audience wondered whether he will maintain his Howard-like campaign face or become more Labor-like. The party's "true believers" hope, along with political commentator Robert Manne, that "when he gets into government, then we'll begin to see the differences again." Voters who swung to Labor only after Rudd moved toward the center may be praying those differences stay small...
...votes counted in Sydney's Bennelong district, Howard trailed by several hundred votes. In an emotional speech Nov. 24 Howard took full responsibility for the conservatives' defeat. Then one of Australia's most successful leaders - and one of President George W. Bush's staunchest western allies - walked off the stage and into retirement...
...everybody?" sings Mike to a crowd of around 200 children, 5 years old and up. "Including the one who lives under the bridge, under the heat of the sunshine, the ones that live on the streets. How are you?" The children sing along as they pile onto the stage. "Let's share the good and the bad times together!" Mike exhorts over the roar of their voices. It may be 30 years late, but for many of these kids punk is the best thing that has ever come to Indonesia...
...while the U.S. and its closest allies are pushing this week for the U.N. Security Council to adopt harsher sanctions against Iran, their prospects of winning U.N. agreement for new punitive measures at this stage appear bleak. Key Security Council powers China and Russia, as well as European states such as Germany and Italy that trade extensively with Iran, warn that new sanctions could endanger such cooperation. But for the U.S. and its closest allies, the fact that Iran's uranium-enrichment centrifuges are spinning is an intolerable fact...
During his first six months in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly shown his talents as a captivating performer on the world stage. In addition to that flair for dramatics, Sarkozy is now proving he also possesses an essential skill of a rock star: the late arrival on stage designed to agonize audiences with anticipation and longing...